Quelea sanguineirostris

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 27

Quelea sanguineirostris [sic] centralis van Someren

Quelea sanguineirostris [sic] centralis van Someren, 1921c: 122 (Lake Albert Edward).

Now Quelea quelea aethiopica (Sundevall, 1850) . See van Someren, 1922a: 147; Hartert, 1928: 194; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 62; Dickinson, 2003: 724; Fry and Keith, 2004: 207–212; and Craig, 2010: 139–140.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 725660 , adult female, collected on Izanga (Izanja, as on label) Island, Lake Idi Amin Dada (= Lake Edward = Lake Albert Edward ), ca. 0025S, 29.30E ( Polhill, 1988), Uganda / Congo (Kinshasa) border, on 28 November 1910. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type of centralis a specimen with the above data in the Rothschild Collection. It is the only such specimen that came to AMNH. Van Someren (1922a: 3) gave the range of centralis as ‘‘ Lake districts of Central Africa , Uganda, Kivu, N. Tanganyika, Toro , Lake Albert Edward , Bukoba’ ’ without enumerating his specimens, but while he was writing this paper on East African birds, he had access to the Roth-

schild Collection. The following paratypes from that collection came to AMNH: Congo (Kinshasa), W of Lake Edward , AMNH 725661 , male, AMNH 725662 , female, 1 February 1908, R. Grauer ; Rutschuru Plain, AMNH 725663–725669 , six males, one female, 6 January–22 February 1908, R. Grauer. Uganda, Toro , Mponga forest, AMNH 725670 , female, undated, R. Grauer ; Toro, AMNH 725671 , male, AMNH 725672 , female, 7 June 1909, V.G.L. van Someren Collection. Tanzania, Urigi Lake , AMNH 725673–725681 , four males, five females, 3– 15 June 1907, R. Grauer ; Kissenji, Lake Kivu , AMNH 725682–725689 , three males, five females, 17 September–19 October 1907, R. Grauer ; Usumbura, Lake Tanganyika , AMNH 725690 , sex?, 26 April 1908, R. Grauer ; northwest of Lake Tanganyika, AMNH 725691–725693 , one male, two females, 10–24 August 1908, R. Grauer. Ruzizi (= Russissi) River , border between Ruanda / Burundi and Congo (Kinshasa), AMNH 725694 , male, AMNH 725695 , female, 9, 17 May 1908, R. Grauer. There are three paratypes in RMCA ( Louette et al., 2002: 78).